Probably seeing the impatience of the shopkeeper and Li Hao, the Sixth Princess said loudly: "Brothers, let's move here. It's closer to the painting shop and you can come and see it from time to time."

Damn it, she was treating this art shop as a free counter for storing her own paintings, yet she said it so confidently.

The shopkeeper was even more embarrassed. He finally controlled the mood that was about to go crazy and curse, and said with a smile: "People who study naturally have to live closer to here. If this little brother can draw a few good paintings, it will be great." It can be handed over to the third store for sale.”

puff

Xue Yue'er pursed her lips and chuckled, looking at the sixth princess's turn to be deflated in amusement.

"Ha ha"

Li Hao burst into laughter without restraining himself at all, and the sixth princess was so angry that she almost ran away.

The Sixth Princess quickly regained her composure and said with a smile: "Xiaosheng's works are still a bit unfamiliar. I'm afraid I won't be able to enter the shopkeeper's shop. But if I stay for a while, I will definitely be able to draw exquisite paintings like those in the shop. Come back then." Please trouble the store."

Generally, the paintings sold in these stores are slightly better paintings, which cannot be sold for a high price, let alone high-quality paintings.High-quality paintings are bought by wealthy businessmen and others from famous painters, and they rarely go through small shops like this.Of course the shopkeeper wouldn't say anything about this.

The shopkeeper said: "It's easy to talk about, so I wish my little brother's painting skills will be perfected as soon as possible."

As a result, the sixth princess's face, which was not thick to begin with, turned red. She didn't hold on for long and hurried out of the store.By the way, I also collected some extremely poor white paper, saying that I would use it when I went back to practice painting.

Originally, the Sixth Princess wanted to buy some special rice paper, but when things turned out like this, it was naturally impossible to buy any more.

Holding the roll of poor drawing paper, she stared at Li Hao and smiled happily. The more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt. She suddenly thrust the drawing paper into Li Hao's hand, entered another shop, and continued to appreciate the calligraphy and paintings inside.

Li Hao couldn't laugh now and waited aside with a grimace.

Although the paintings are beautiful, they cannot compare to the real scenes. Although the words are beautiful, they cannot compare to what is written on plaques in various places.

It wasn't until the night became desolate, the number of pedestrians dwindled, and the shops were closed one after another that the Sixth Princess let Li Hao go.As a result, Li Hao and Li Hao were unwilling to go shopping with her anymore, even if she threatened to go home and enjoy the happiness.

After that night, Li Hao and the other three walked slowly to a drugstore carrying packages and bought some medicinal materials.The east family bought a little bit, and the west family bought a little bit, but it was not a prescription at all. This made the store owner extremely suspicious, wondering what he was going to do with the medicinal materials.

After buying the medicinal materials, Li Hao borrowed a medicine grinder and carefully ground them into powder according to the secret recipe in his memory.

The sixth princess didn't know what Li Hao was doing, and she didn't know the medicinal materials, so she couldn't help but be very curious. Li Hao simply asked her questions and kept silent, not telling her what to do.

After all the medicinal materials were gathered, Xue Yue'er followed Li Hao for two years, but she made a rough guess and said with a smile: "Junior brother, you are a little too brave to do this."

The sixth princess hurriedly asked: "Senior brother, what do you want to do?"

"Mi Xiang." Xue Yue'er replied with a smile.

The Sixth Princess laughed heartily and said: "Junior brother, you are too bad, so you are not afraid of being hunted down by more people."

"It's better than going home with you."

Li Hao continued to fiddle with the large amount of medicinal powder, while the Sixth Princess and Xue Yue'er simply practiced calligraphy on the side. It would be a waste to use it for painting, after all, it was not their specialty.

On the second day of the city's lockdown, policemen began to come to major inns to ask if any suspicious people were staying, and manpower was left to monitor each inn.

However, Li Hao was clever. On the second day after entering the city, he spent a lot of money to buy a small manor for 5000 taels of silver and lived in it near Li Aidingshan's store.And he also found two servants to serve him, who looked like he planned to stay there for a long time.

However, those little thieves and big bandit leaders were unlucky again, and many of them were arrested.Li Hao may be their nemesis. After two visits to the capital, two large groups of bandits were implicated and arrested.

After the third day, there were more patrolling guards on the streets, not to mention those who were investigating incognito.

We really can't put it off any longer, they've already almost played it anyway.

That evening, Li Hao ordered the newly hired servant to invite a carriage to come in.

In the early morning of the fourth day, the scorching sun began to rise. The sky was golden and brilliant, spreading all over the city, taking away some light fog. There were already more pedestrians on the road.

A carriage slowly drove out of Li Hao's newly purchased manor. The sound of horse hooves and the harsh gurgle of wheels slowly made its way to the north gate.

There are many guards guarding the city gate, nearly a hundred in number, not counting those on the city wall.

The wind was so strong in front of the city gate in the early morning that it made the bright yellow flags on the city wall whistle and make people feel chilly. Many people kept hunching their necks, waiting, and kept cursing whoever was there. The damn guy caused a lot of harm and made everyone suffer.

There were many people going in and out of the city, and the carriage was waiting slowly among the people leaving the city.

While waiting, the old man with a triangular face and a dry face driving the carriage, wearing a thick gray cloth jacket, looked at the crowd of people in front of him. He simply took out a pipe of dry cigarette, stuffed it with a piece of tobacco, lit it with a flint, and took a deep breath. Take one puff, and then exhale a large puff of gray-white smoke, looking leisurely and contented.

The wheel moved slowly, and soon it was his turn. The guard guarding the city ordered: "Get down."

The dry old man put the pipe into his belt, jumped out of the car and said, "Soldier, this car only contains some ordinary luggage. Just take a look at it."

One guard pulled the old man aside and searched carefully, while another guard got into the carriage to check.

The dry old man was afraid that if he secretly withheld something, he would be scolded by his employer, and when he was searched by the guard, he kept staring at the guard's movements with his eyes.

Inside the carriage were two large boxes, which were not locked. They contained some silk and satin. The guards opened them carefully and took a closer look. There was no murderer and no hidden weapon.

The only weird thing was that there was a plaque inside, with a few words on Li Chengzhi's memorial tablet. There were two white candles lit in front of the plaque, and the flames flickered due to the wind blowing in from the carriage.

"what is this"

The guards guarding the city felt very unlucky, but they had to ask, maybe they were just talking.Because after he saw the spiritual tablet, he put down Buman and jumped down.

What he didn't see clearly was that when he entered the carriage, the candle flame was usually red and white, but that candle was blue-green.

The dry old man said: "I don't know, my employer has told me not to let the air flow freely."

"Let's go quickly, it's really a lot of work."

There was nothing he was looking for, just something strange and unlucky. The guard waved his hand and let him go, his face a little ugly.

The carriage continued to move forward slowly, no different from a carriage pulled by oxen, but this did not affect the exit from behind. Naturally, no one criticized him, not to mention that the avenue outside the city gate was wide enough for five or six carriages to travel side by side.

The breeze blew by, and a very pleasant fragrance suddenly floated out of the old cabin, like orchid, musk deer, or sandalwood burned in the temple, which made people feel very comfortable and warm.

Gradually, the green smoke floating out of the carriage became larger and larger, blowing inward along with the breeze at the city gate, and drifting faintly into the distance.

"What's in the carriage? Why is there smoke floating out?"

"Sandalwood was burned in the car"

The people waiting behind couldn't help but guess that the guards didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just the normal smoke caused by the candlelight.

Shortly after this carriage, another carriage arrived in front of the city gate.

"There are so many carriages nowadays, why don't they contain two more boxes?"

The guards guarding the city couldn't help but murmured that if there were a few more vehicles, wouldn't they be exhausted?

"Not two boxes."

Before the guard could relax, the coachman with a pointed face chuckled and said, "They are four boxes. The employer said the boxes were poisoned. I didn't bring the antidote, so please don't open them."

Thinking about it, he didn't believe it at the time. He only touched it with one finger, and he screamed in pain, and his fingers became as black as fire. Fortunately, his employer immediately gave him the antidote, which relieved his pain.

The guard's expression changed and he scolded: "Hmph, how can it be so easy to hide a criminal and escape from the city?"

The remaining guards immediately stared at the coachman and the carriage with wary expressions.The coachman chuckled, not bothering to argue with him.

The car opened and four narrow boxes half a foot long were revealed inside. There were also tiny copper locks on the boxes. It would be impossible to fit a person's arm even if he cut off one of his arms. There was no way he could hide someone.

The guard let out a breath of relief and asked, "Haha, I thought it was a big box, but it turns out it's so small. What kind of treasure is inside?"

The coachman shook his head and said, "I don't know. My employer didn't tell me. I'm just a coachman. How dare I ask more questions."

It wasn't that he didn't dare to ask, it was because he was afraid of the poison. It was probably filled with poisonous snakes and insects.These things are like treasures to them, and they and others can't avoid them.

Thinking of his employer's ghastly sneer, the coachman couldn't help but shudder again.

Seeing that the guard wanted to open it but didn't dare to take a look, the coachman smiled and said, "Since there is nothing that my father-in-law is looking for, you can go."

"This box is really poisonous"

The guard suddenly moved and touched the box with the scabbard in his hand. He really didn't dare to touch it with his hands.After pushing it gently, the box still wouldn't move.

Could it be that it contained gold and silver? The guard's heart was pounding with excitement, as if the gold and silver had already entered his hands. He clenched the scabbard in his hand unconsciously with more force, and lifted the heavier one. The little box pushed a little.



There was a sudden loud noise, and a large cloud of green smoke came out from under the box and exploded outwards in an instant.

"Oh, this is so bad."

The driver screamed strangely and immediately abandoned the vehicle and fled out of the city as hard as he could.However, the smoke seemed to be stirred up by explosives and moved very fast. The coachman was already about three feet away from the carriage, and the door of the carriage was not facing him directly, so he still could not escape. Some of the smoke was inhaled into his nose, making him faintly dizzy. Feeling of sleepiness.

bang bang

Following that explosion, three more explosions were heard in succession, shaking the cloth on both sides of the carriage and causing the carriage to shake.A large cloud of gray-white smoke billowed out of the entire carriage, instantly sweeping over the entire city gate and filling the entire door.Then the breeze blowing into the city, those waiting in line to leave the city, and a large group of people who had just entered the city were instantly enveloped in the gray-white smoke.

The guard standing at the entrance of the carriage bore the brunt of the smoke. The smoke went directly into his mouth. Half of the gray smoke entered his stomach. He simply closed his eyes and fell to the ground like a wooden sculpture.

The guards next to him were no exception and only lasted a breath or two.



The horses pulling the cart were so frightened that their hair exploded, and they rushed forward desperately pulling the cart like crazy, leaving behind the clouds of smoke that floated back to the city gate and back to the north gate of the city.

The panic-stricken people behind them felt tired and drowsy as soon as they breathed in the smoke. They gritted their teeth and rushed to the side. Before they could take more than three or two steps, they fell down one after another and lay on the ground in a mess.

On the contrary, the extremely fast coachman saw the opportunity and ran straight out of the city gate for dozens of feet. After several dozen feet, he still did not fall, but became more energetic as he ran.

"Stop, don't move"

Just as the explosion sounded, three or four men in different clothes suddenly rushed towards the coachman from the crowd behind, chasing the culprit.

The group had just taken a few quick steps when a stream of people came rushing towards them. These people bent their legs like rocs, leaping over their heads and chasing outside the city gate.

"Catch the murderer"

Suddenly three horsemen shouted the same and rushed towards the city gate.

The guard guarding the city gate was stunned for a moment, then rushed down from the city wall in panic and chased the fleeing people.

thump

The four rocs flying in the air suddenly fell dozens of feet in front of the city gate, lying on the ground like the guards guarding the city.

At the moment they fell, there was still a look of extreme panic in their eyes. They thought this was very strange and unacceptable to them, because they had obviously closed their breath and could still rush out for dozens of feet. There was no problem at all, why did he suddenly collapse?

You obviously didn't inhale even a tiny bit of this smoke, so why did you collapse? Is the smoke poisonous?

With this trace of confusion, they closed their eyes sleepily and fell to the ground.The moment your body touches the ground, you still feel a little pain

Sure enough, the higher you fly, the harder you fall.

Some gangsters who were not poisoned stood aside from a distance and gloated.

Most of the people approaching the city gate fell to the ground. Only the three extraordinary horses, carrying the three riders, rushed out of the city gate unimpeded.

So some people are thinking, why can't the man be fascinated? Why can't the horse be fascinated? It's really strange.

The people on the city wall just ran downstairs and looked at the unconscious guards and people passing by in horror. There were also a few people staggering and struggling, not understanding why the strange smoke was poisonous. When they were knocking down everyone, how could they dare to get close?

The guards guarding the city gate tower still didn't understand what happened, so naturally they didn't dare to shoot at the three horses with their bows.So, in just a few breaths, the three horses ran hundreds of feet away, until they became smaller and smaller, turned into a red cloud, a red dot, and finally became blurry and faded out of sight.

The chaos at the city gate continued. The commander in charge, like all the guards, fell under the smoke before he could give orders.

It wasn't until the smarter guards sent the news back using carrier pigeons that a large group of soldiers rushed over to control the chaotic situation.

Afterwards, the unconscious people woke up one after another and were fine, including the curious soldier who had half smoked cigarettes.However, after the soldier woke up, he also suffered a feast of sticks. The pain was so painful that he couldn't help but regret it.

Several small towns in front soon received messages from flying pigeons, and people who passed by were strictly investigated.

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